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Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

News, Politics, Government

4.4 • 8.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2020

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Emily, John and David discuss Tara Reade’s allegations against Joe Biden, the debate over reopening schools, and the three hosts are joined by astronaut Scott Kelly to talk through tips for living in confined spaces. For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment David, Emily, and John discuss the ethics of human challenge trials for vaccine development. Slate Plus members get a bonus segment on the Gabfest each week, and access to special bonus episodes throughout the year. Sign up now to listen and support our show. You can tweet suggestions, links, and questions to @SlateGabfest. Tweet us your cocktail chatter using #cocktailchatter or post it to our Facebook page. (Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) The email address for the Political Gabfest is gabfest@slate.com. (Email may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Here are notes and references from this week’s show: Michael J. Stern for USA Today: “Why I'm Skeptical About Reade's Sexual Assault Claim Against Biden: Ex-Prosecutor” Brian & Eddie Krassenstein for Medium: “Biden Accuser, Tara Reade, Allegedly Stole from Non-Profit Organization” Seren Morris for Newsweek: “What is 1 Day Sooner? Scientists Seek Volunteers to Become Infected with Coronavirus to Speed Up Vaccine Development” Peter Singer and Richard Yetter Chappell for the Washington Post: “Pandemic Ethics: The Case for Experiments on Human Volunteers” Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey Here are this week’s cocktail chatters: Emily: Linda Villarosa for The New York Times Magazine: “‘A Terrible Price’: The Deadly Racial Disparities of Covid-19 in America” John: Kathryn Krawczyk for The Week: “Michigan Governor Introduces a GI Bill for Frontline Workers”; Rosalind Adams and Ken Bensinger for Buzzfeed: “After One Tweet To President Trump, This Man Got $69 Million From New York For Ventilators” David: David’s new newsletter for Business Insider; Johnny Diaz for the New York Times: “Cities Close Streets to Cars, Opening Space for Social Distancing” Listener chatter from Püblic Üniversal Fiend @UniversalFiend: Associated Press: “Dutch Students Complete Trans-Atlantic Voyage Forced by Coronavirus” Podcast production by Jocelyn Frank. Research and show notes by Bridgette Dunlap. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the slate political gavvets for April 30th, 2020.
0:11.0	Come on man, I heard you like me.
0:13.2	Oh god.
0:14.2	Oh great.
0:15.2	Get the reference.
0:16.2	You got that reference?
0:17.2	No.
0:18.2	I'm David Plott's, joining me of course from their particular lockdown quarantines.
0:25.8	John Dickerson of CBS is 60 minutes from New York.
0:28.4	Hello John.
0:29.4	Hi.
0:30.4	And Emily Bazlon of the New York Times magazine and Yale University Law School from her
0:34.6	home in New Haven.
0:36.1	Hello Emily.
0:37.1	Hello.
0:38.1	On today's gavvest, we will talk about terror reads accusation that Joe Biden sexually assaulted
0:44.3	her in the early 1990s and how that could shake up the presidential race.
0:51.1	Then should colleges and elementary schools reopen in the fall?
0:54.8	Can they reopen?
0:56.3	Must they reopen?
0:57.3	And we will discuss that.
0:59.5	And we will talk to astronaut Scott Kelly.
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